Water Purification: What’s Best?
5 Aug
The Minnesota news web site MinnPost recently noted THIS article in Wilderness Medicine that compared various water purification techniques commonly used by canoe campers and other wilderness travelers.
The winner, according to MinnPost’s Mark Neuzil … boiling your drinking water.While each technique had its drawbacks — boiling’s were that it’s time consuming and inconvenient — only the old-school method killed all the water-borne pathogens that can sicken humans.
As Nuezil puts it: “Iodine tastes bad, filters are not effective against some viruses, ultraviolet systems use batteries and need the particles removed from the water first, chlorine dioxide needs more testing in the field, and chlorine tablets are not effective against giardia.”
You can read Nuezil’s story HERE.
Read our Feature Story on Water Treatment HERE>
